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In multi-objective optimization, a single decision vector must balance the trade-offs between many objectives. Solutions achieving an optimal trade-off are said to be Pareto optimal: these are decision vectors for which improving any one…

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Machine Learning models incorporating multiple layered learning networks have been seen to provide effective models for various classification problems. The resulting optimization problem to solve for the optimal vector minimizing the…

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A Graph of Convex Sets (GCS) is a graph in which vertices are associated with convex programs and edges couple pairs of programs through additional convex costs and constraints. Any optimization problem over an ordinary weighted graph…

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In this paper, we provide a new scheme for approximating the weakly efficient solution set for a class of vector optimization problems with rational objectives over a feasible set defined by finitely many polynomial inequalities. More…

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This paper establishes several new facts on generalized polyhedral convex sets and shows how they can be used in vector optimization. Among other things, a scalarization formula for the efficient solution sets of generalized vector…

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In multi-objective optimization, computing the entire non-dominated set (also known as the Pareto front or the Pareto frontier) is often intractable. However, for any multiplicative factor greater than one, an approximation set can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Levin Nemesch , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Alina Wittmann

This paper proposes novel algorithm for non-convex multimodal constrained optimisation problems. It is based on sequential solving restrictions of problem to sections of feasible set by random subspaces (in general, manifolds) of low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Alexander Gornov

Constrained Optimization solution algorithms are restricted to point based solutions. In practice, single or multiple objectives must be satisfied, wherein both the objective function and constraints can be non-convex resulting in multiple…

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We introduce a class of "inverse parametric optimization" problems, in which one is given both a parametric optimization problem and a desired optimal solution; the task is to determine parameter values that lead to the given solution. We…

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Many high-dimensional optimisation problems exhibit rich geometric structures in their set of minimisers, often forming smooth manifolds due to over-parametrisation or symmetries. When this structure is known, at least locally, it can be…

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This letter proposes to estimate low-rank matrices by formulating a convex optimization problem with non-convex regularization. We employ parameterized non-convex penalty functions to estimate the non-zero singular values more accurately…

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We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of several convex non-smooth functions. We introduce a new algorithm called the selective linearization method, which iteratively linearizes all but one of the functions and employs simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Yu Du , Xiaodong Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

In this paper we consider multi-objective optimization problems over a box. The problem is very relevant and several computational approaches have been proposed in the literature. They broadly fall into two main classes: evolutionary…

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In this paper, vector optimization is considered in the framework of decision making and optimization in general spaces. Interdependencies between domination structures in decision making and domination sets in vector optimization are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Petra Weidner

In this paper, we study a family of non-convex and possibly non-smooth inf-projection minimization problems, where the target objective function is equal to minimization of a joint function over another variable. This problem include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Lijun Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Recent results in control systems and numerical integration literature utilize invariant set theory to lift dynamical systems evolving on nonlinear manifolds to those evolving on vector spaces. We leverage this technique to propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Siddharth H. Nair

To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

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We present the viewpoint that optimization problems encountered in machine learning can often be interpreted as minimizing a convex functional over a function space, but with a non-convex constraint set introduced by model parameterization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yongqiang Cai , Qianxiao Li , Zuowei Shen

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

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